I don't see the conflict as long as he did the work. Thinking he takes it to trial and wins.

Now Iowa State University ECpE, they have full on corrupt faculty working full time for their private company, showing just up for lectures to read out of the book. Their TA's do all grading. Their RA's must sign NDAs and take forever to graduate because he won't let them publish his "proprietary" stuff. That is fraud.